Cleaning and polishing fluid



Patented Oct. 8, 1-929 P T-Em OFFlCE EDWARD HAUGHEY, or Baoirx, NEW YORK stamina AND POLISHING FLUID No Drawing;

My invention refers to polishes used to preserve and to finish furniture,rautomobiles and wooden and metallic surfaces in general.

The advantages of my polish are based on 5 its combined cleaning and polishing action. Hence its objects are to provide a polish which, first, gives a lasting lustrous surface, second, removes grime, dirt or other layers of foreign materials, third, smoothens and fills- 13 scratches, crevices and holes, after they have been cleaned so that they do not offer a place in which new dirt may settle and fourth, can

be put onto the surface to be single application.

To attain these objects I make use of a mix- .ture of four pints of boiled linseed oil, 8 ounces of bees-wax, 1% pints of turpentine and three ounces of kerosene The bees-wax is broken r 3 into small pieces and slowly and carefully boiled with the linseed oil for twenty minutes, the solution being stirred regularly. I allow this mixture to cool until it is'luke-warm and then I add the turpentine, mixing the ingredients thoroughly. Then I add thekerosene in like manner. The mixture thus obtained is strained and under continuous stirring is filled into suitable containers.

The polish is applied with a clean soft rag and allowed to stand for a few minutes. Then it is rubbed off with a clean dry cloth and a high polish is obtained.

polished in a Applicationfiled September 5. 1928. Serial No. 304.163.

The dissolving quality of the mixture, due

to the small percentage of kerosene, is just sufiicient to take away all the dirt and to bring out the full original color of the surface to be polished without impairing it. The smoothness of the finished surface I attribute particularly to the high percentage of wax (about 7 to 8% which is slightly in excess of the saturation point of the liquid.

I claim:

The herein described liquid polishing composition, consisting of the following ingredients compounded in approximately the following proportions by weight, boiled linseed oil 63%, turpentine 26%, bees-wax 8%, and kerosene 3%.

Signed at New York in the county of Bronx and State of New York this 1st day of Sept, A. D. 1928. i

EDWARD HAUGHEY.

Aside from dusting the loose dirt from the surface to be polished before the application of my mixture, no other steps are necessary to, finish a piece of furniture or an automobile to a lasting-lustre or gloss. The polish contains a comparatively high percentage of wax some of which may settle outof the solution 49 if it is allowed to stand for a long period of time. But by a little shaking before application the wax is distributed throughout the liquid so that my mixture can be applied very evenly. I have found that the kerosene will dissolveall foreign matters on the surface to be polished and that the wax, which is in suspension in the solution will fill up the openings in the smooth surfaces out of which the dirt is cleaned by kerosene, so that the face of the article. to be polished is perfectly 

